Silk Road Project
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Tanglewood season starts with Mahler...Harth-Bedoya will lead a multimedia concert with music linked to the ancient Inca Empire. In addition to Ma (who will also bring his Silk Road Ensemble), the summer's soloists will include cellists Alisa Weilerstein and Lynn Harrell;... In this article: Tanglewood, James Levine, Second Symphony, Third Symphony, Fourth Symphony, Symphony of Psalms, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Kurt Masur |
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New York Post: Entertainment | November 13, 2009
Hit the 'Road' camel and all
...AD 800. On Sunday afternoons, visitors are treated to musicians from around the world who are part of a global music initiative called the Silk Road Project, founded by Yo-Yo Ma. The Silk Road and its travelers were directly responsible...
In this article: American Museum of Natural History, Yo-Yo Ma, China, Asia, and Baghdad
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Indiana Times - The Economic Times | November 04, 2009
'Nothing compares to a Nobel'
...was seven. Q. Have you performed in India before, apart from the Sangat music festival? Ihave performed in New Delhi and in Agra with the Silk Road Ensemble , a project of the cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The idea behind the Ensemble is to discover...
In this article: Mumbai, India, Agra, New Delhi, Nobel Prize, Mango, East Carolina University, and Yo-Yo Ma
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L.A. Times - Music News | October 24, 2009
Wu Man takes the pipa down an ancient path
...music. Wu, by contrast, worked for 12 years in Boston, played at the White House in 1999, and became a founding member of the Silk Road Ensemble led by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and has become the leading Western exponent of her instrument.
In this article: Wu Man, China, Terry Riley, San Diego, Carnegie Hall, UC San Diego, Los Angeles Times, Isaac Stern, and Yo-Yo Ma
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Chicago Sun-Times | October 23, 2009
Cabaret show extends Silk Road to Broadway
...their way along these often treacherous pathways. The cellist Yo-Yo Ma has championed the music of this fabled route in his Silk Road Ensemble. But Chicago's Silk Road Theatre Project has made its mark by producing works for the stage...
In this article: The King and I, Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road Ensemble, Miss Saigon, Chicago, India, and China
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The Seattle Times | October 22, 2009
Classical roundup: From flamenco to fiddle
...player, taiko drummer and former KODO member; Khongorzul Ganbaatar, master of the Mongolian long song and a member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project; noted Japanese koto player Miki Maruta;horsehead fiddle virtuoso Tserendorj Tseyen; throat...
In this article: Seattle Symphony, Psycho, Seattle, Bernard Herrmann, and Yo-Yo Ma
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch | October 22, 2009
Yo-Yo Ma returns to St. Louis for Symphony's gala
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs with members of the Silk Road Ensemble in Boston in 2005 to help promote his new CD "Silk Road Journeys Beyond the Horizon." Ma was born in Paris to Chinese parents and came to the United States as a child prodigy.
In this article: Antonin Dvorak, Yo-Yo Ma, New York City, Paris, American music, Symphony No. 8, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Harvard
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washingtonpost.com | October 13, 2009
Alt-Classical Events Coming to the Washington Region
..."Twilight Music" at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring. Nov. 14: Brooklyn Rider, a string quartet made up of members of the Silk Road Ensemble, performs with the spike-fiddle player Kayhan Kalhor at the Library of Congress.
In this article: Library of Congress, Baltimore, So Percussion, Washington, Steve Reich, Silk Road Ensemble, Christopher O'Riley, and Radiohead
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washingtonpost.com | October 08, 2009
Fill the Fall With Free Local Music
...this fall include a concert Nov. 14 by a new quartet called Brooklyn Rider. These four musicians -- all members of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project -- have collaborated with Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor for an evening of world music. The...
In this article: University of Maryland, Washington, The Elixir of Love, Peabody Institute, Juilliard, Ticketmaster, Gaetano Donizetti, Franz Schubert, and Yo-Yo Ma
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Times of India | October 08, 2009
Science bonds Nobel winner Venky���s family
...brother-in-law are all wedded to science. The one exception is Raman, a graduate of Juilliard School of Music and a member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, although the exactitude needed of a cello and cellist might also qualify him to be a...
In this article: Ice cream, Nobel Prize, and Kheer
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Times Online | August 21, 2009
Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble heads for the Proms
Navigation - link to other main sections from here Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble heads for the Proms One of the most brilliant cellists on the planet has set up the multicultural Silk Road project, which is coming to the BBC Proms in...
In this article: Yo-Yo Ma, Isaac Stern, Serge Koussevitsky, Harvard, China, Royal Albert Hall, New York, and American music
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Silk Road Project, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization, initiated by acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, promoting collaboration among artists and institutions, promoting multicultural artistic exchange, and studying the ebb and flow of ideas among different cultures along the Silk Road. The Project is an umbrella organization for a number of artistic, cultural and educational programs.
The organization has published a book, commissioned 20 new chamber music compositions, and created educational material entitled "Silk Road Encounters." As of October 2008, the Silk Road Ensemble has produced five CDs.
At its height from the second century BCE until the 14th century, the Silk Road was a vast network of trade routes that connected China to the Mediterranean through Greater Iran. For centuries ideas, objects, and people traveled along the Silk Road, making it one of the most fluid and broad arenas of exchange the world has known and a major conduit of culture and civilization. The name Silk Road Project serves as a metaphor of the cultural exchange of ideas envisioned by the project.
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